Jasmine: A whole new world!Aladdin: Don’t you dare close your eyes…Jasmine: A hundred thousand things to see!Aladdin: Hold your breath – it gets better.Jasmine: I’m like a shooting star, I’ve come so far, I can’t go back to where I used to be…

Oh, wait. That’s not quite the “jasmine” that Bovetti is attempting to replicate in this chocolate, is it?

That’s a bit of a shame, really. I’d much rather find Disney-themed chocolates in my local store than, say, chocolate imprinted with Twilight devil-spawn*.

But I digress. This is my fifth and final Bovetti chocolate review (for the foreseeable future), so read on to discover whether this French chocolate company went out with a bang or a whimper…

Bovetti Dark Chocolate with Jasmine Flowers

As soon as I removed this chocolate from its cardboard packaging, my speedy typing fingers wrote down “oooh, smells good! The aroma is very fragrant.”

And then I felt like an idiot. “The aroma is fragrant”? That simply means that the aroma is an aroma. Clearly, my Pulitzer Prize shall continue to elude me…

Luckily for all of us, I soon picked out brown sugar and floral notes in the aroma of this chocolate. It wasn’t quite like closing my eyes and burying my nose in a bunch of my grandfather’s gorgeously perfumed home-grown roses, but then again, how could it be? Bovetti is chocolate, not roses. (See what I mean? Pulitzer!)

After such stellar note-taking as detailed above, I took a nibble of this 73% dark chocolate and was suddenly, immediately, tautologically delighted with its earthy and muscovado sugar flavours.

Many of you would know by now that my chocolate tastes tend away from the red fruit spectrum. Subsequently, I was inordinately pleased with the notes that sang out to me from this Bovetti chocolate. I picked out clotted cream, dusky cocoa, rich hot fudge sauce (the proper kind; not chocolate syrup from a bottle), marscapone, charcoal, sawdust, and walnuts.

If you who don’t regularly crave chocolate that tastes of sawdust and walnuts, you’re missing out. Ahem.

While this chocolate isn’t astringent or bitter, it also isn’t overly sweet. As a result, the sugared jasmine flowers sprinkled on top provide not only a textural contrast but a pleasing burst of floral sweetness. One thing I’m always wary of when it comes to floral flavours is their tendency to taste like soap. Thankfully, the sugared jasmine used in this chocolate is subtle enough to remind me more of perfume than detergent.

And that, my friends, is a flavour of chocolate I can wholeheartedly recommend.

* Any Twilight lovers out there, I shall hereby disclose that I’ve read all four books, and am quite intrigued by how, in the name of all things decent, the birth scene of Breaking Dawn is going to be filmed.

*laughs* Ellie, I’m really, really not joking. I did the exact same thing back in 2008 too 😛 Actually, the bulk of the good stuff *was* from America. Don’t underestimate your country’s chocolate making capabilities! 😉

Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat
Tell you all about it when I got the time!

As for Twilight, I think it is best not to think about the birth scene. There are several other bits in that last book I would prefer not to think about too…

Oh, was this post about chocolate? I didn’t notice! I was just singing Aladdin songs in my head the whole way through reading (until the end when I noticed you were clearly having the same concerns I have).

I thought the flowers were bloom from the heat at first and was concerned at how it would taste so was relieved it was actually ok! And glad the floral worked – I often think of floral scented things from my childhood (erasers, pens, dolls) smelled like a cheap air freshener.

Christine, sadly, I have to disagree with you! I’ve read the books, and while the first one was fun in a trashy way, I found the rest quite boring and… well, I’ll keep my other comments to myself as I completely appreciate that everyone has different tastes 😛 In fact, I’m a fan of anyone reading anything at all, so more power to you!

Whee, it seems like many people are in a Disney fever these days! 😀 Aladdin is one of my favorites, and I love the song “Arabian Nights” at the beginning of the movie. So cool! 🙂

I really like Twilight, although I think it’s not a love story, but a story about a pathological depency disorder. 😉 Still, a very nice read! And I love the movies, they’re so beautifully filmed, and the music is cool! 😀

I think that scene will be an eyes shut sequence for me. When I read that part in the book, I got really sick. I cannot see or imagine other people in such pain, it’s like feeling it in my own body.

As you can see in my reply to Ellie, when I went traveling around America and Europe this time last year, I returned home with over $200 worth of chocolate. So some of it is from that, and then I’ve also been lucky enough to receive several packages of chocolates from bloggers/friends across the world in recent months 🙂

I’ve just gotta say “hell yes!” about the Aladdin shoutout, first of all.

And I had to read the first Twilight book for a class, so naturally I read all of the others too. I find Stephenie Meyer to be a horrible writer, for the most part, but I did like the books okay. I agree that the birth scene…will be hilarious.

ARGH…. I am sooooo obsessed with Twilight, Im a Twi-hard! 🙂 I’ve read the books (a number of times) listened to them, (a number of times) had to get the audio for when I couldn’t sleep, and sadly, I’ve contributed a huge chunk of moula to collecting Twilight bits and pieces…. I don’t actually think I’ve put any thought into how they will do the birth scene? Gross! ;(

Anna, you are now officially in the running for the most Twilight-obsessed person I know, along with a girl who has gone to Sydney for the second and third movie premieres. If only I’d known this earlier, I could’ve bought you the Bella and Jacob Barbies I saw in Europe 😉

We did an Aladdin performance for our school assembly in Year 6, and I wanted to be Jasmine but some other girl got chosen instead. I think I did a good job at being a generic background girl, but it took a little while to get over my disappointment. I wish I had some of this chocolate back then to assist me in this.

I’ll never be able to think of/sing that song again without having your gorgeous visage in my mind’s eye 😉

Oh, I completely understand the second-fiddle starlet thing. In kidnergarten, I was a generic angel in the Nativity Play whilst my best friend was Mary. I got back at her in Year 6, though, when I wrote and starred in a musical about rubbish and recycling.

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Hannah. Writer, editor, firm believer in socks, gin, laughter, buttered toast, cheesecake, and semicolons. Currently back in Canberra after two years living in Canada; heart tingling to see what happens next.